Georges Méliès Movies

A series of fantastical wrestling matches.

This picture depicts the eruption of the volcano by which over 30,000 souls were hurled into eternity. The numerous explosions which took place...

The plot follows King Edward VII and President Armand Fallières dreaming of building a tunnel under the English Channel.

A knight performs several magic tricks with a disembodied head materialized from a chalkboard drawing.

A traveler at an inn is harassed by a mischievous devil in his room.

A photographer has an accident which not only screws up his lab but dumps a great deal of debris into the street below, causing general chaos.

The setting of this fantastic scene represents the hall of an old chateau in which a miser has locked up seven large bags containing his wealth....

In this hand-colored short, a magician and his assistant do a series of magic tricks, including making potted plants appear, among others. Melies...

An incident of the Franco-Prussian War. It shows the bombardment of a house at Bazeille. It is the animated reproduction of de Neuville's celebrated...

A soldier is talking to a woman while sitting on a bench, a man sits on it, and the soldier stands up, causing the bench to tip over and the man...

A man takes off his clothes in preparation for bed, only for new clothes to spontaneously generate, leading to comical consternation.

The opium fiend is seen in a den, puffing on this terrible narcotic. He then falls fast asleep and dreams that he is at home with his wife. He asks...

A man has an encounter with several spooky apparitions in a castle that is evidently owned by the Devil.

The first movie ever censored for political reasons. The title refers to the then contemporaneous Dreyfus affair in which a Jewish military officer...

A lost film. Georges Méliès also directed a film entitled Faust aux enfers in 1903 that is frequently confused with this one, but it...

A family goes to a photographer. The photographer pushes the boy around, and no one seems to care. The boy gets his revenge.

A green-skinned demon places a woman and two courtiers into a flaming cauldron.

A devil wearing bat-like wings and brandishing a trident dances around a giant pot, conjuring forth flame from his trident to lit a fire beneath the...

A walk through the life and work of the brilliant French filmmaker Georges Méliès (1861-1938), pioneer of special and visual effects.

Another magic short of Méliès.